Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Human interest" stories in scientific guise are commonplaces of journalism. But more than commonplace was a late dispatch from Paris, containing an ironic bit of information. Professor Charles Valliant was recently declared the winner of a prize of 15,000 francs, awarded by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for heroism in the cause of science. He was chosen because, after repeated operations, he has sacrificed both his arms in experimenting with the X-ray. But the Academy has now been obliged to withdraw its award, because Professor Vailliant is physically unable to sign for the money...
What, then, is wrong with the reader? Besides a very human desire for sensationalism, he is unable--according to Mr. Allen--to appreciate the proper value of the important news items, "to distinguish the A. P. dispatch from the special correspondents' forecast of conditions, and the fact story from the rumor story, or to take into account the probable bias of the paper...
...neighbors to become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they have, according to an Associated. Press dispatch, organized a canal corporation at Munich to construct a two thousand mile waterway by joining the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. The engineering details will tax the German imagination as much as the Allied Reparation Demands will tax their pocket books; but there seems to be as little worry about...
...With a view to determining the best method of developing the ship scrapping industry in the United States," so runs a dispatch from Washington, "the Paymaster General of the Navy has invited representative groups of financiers, steel operators, shipbuilders, scrap dealers, chambers of commerce, and editors of trade papers to meet this week at the Philadelphia Navy Yard." It is not too big a meeting when the tonnage involved runs into the millions. Part of it will be actual scrapping, we presume, as when Mr. Ford offers to wave the magic acetylene torch and turn gun-turrets into livers. Part...
Much as we regret that the crew has been deprived of the University daily we can not help noting here our pride in the fact that anyone should be so angry ("very angry" were the words in the dispatch) as to send a telegram (paid in advance) all the way to Cambridge on that account...